If you look up on a clear night from a darksky location, you might see the Milky Way as a faint band of thousands of stars.

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

In the vast expanse of the universe, the Milky Way Galaxy holds a special place in our hearts. It is our home, and after studying it for decades from our cosmic residence nestled within one of its ...

Measuring a galaxy’s brightness or apparent size is not a good guide to its distance. Hubble leveraged a discovery made by Henrietta Swan Leavitt 10 years earlier.

The Milky Way contains between 100 billion and 400 billion stars, but the exact number is difficult to determine due to the galaxy's vast size and the presence of dust that obscures our view.

Though it is a full-fledged galaxy, Andromeda XXXV is small enough to be ensnared by the gravitational pull of Andromeda—much like the satellite galaxies of the Milky Way.

Measuring a galaxy’s brightness or apparent size is not a good guide to its distance. Hubble leveraged a discovery made by Henrietta Swan Leavitt 10 years earlier.

These "satellites" are smaller galaxies in both mass and size that orbit a larger galaxy, usually called the host galaxy. Is our home galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, a special place?

What is the Milky Way? The Milky Way is our galaxy, a massive system made of stars, gas and dust. It is estimated to contain more than 100 billion stars and is about 100,000 light-years across.

The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly early for a spiral galaxy of a similar size to our Milky Way ...